Chandelier-support.



PATBNTEDJUNE 6, 1905@y No. 791,627. y

J, KUHLEMEYER. GHANDELIERSUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 6. 1905.

l UNITED STATES f Patented .Tune 6, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHANN KUI-ILEMEYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. l

' CH'ANDELlEn-SUPPORT. i

. SPECIFICATION forming part or Lettersratent No. 791,627, dated .Tune e, 1905. .y Application filed-February 6, 1905. Serial No. 244,290. l

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, JOHANN KUHLEMEYER, a citizen of the Netherlands, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chandelier-Supports', of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for supporting chandeliers in suspension, and is designed primarily for electric-light fixtures. Its object is to provide means which are adjustable regardless of irregularities in the surface of a ceiling, so that the chandelier may hang plumb.v

In devices heretofore constructed the bracket is usually fastened against the horizontal surface of the ceiling, and considerable difiiculty of its timber support or cross-piece.

has been experienced in securing'an absolutely vertical position for-the pendent chandelier, the slightest roughness or unevenness of surface to which the ordinary bracket is vattached oftentimes throwing the suspended pipe or rod considerably out of plumb, which can only be corrected by bending the pipe, tube, or rod or'leveling the surface to which the bracket is attached. Even then the adjustment is accomplished with more or less difculty. v

With the above object in view my invention consists in the novel chandelier hanger `or bracket hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claims. i

1n Ithe drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a chandelier, a section of Hoor and ceiling, and my vinvention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a View taken on a vertical plane at right angles to the vertical plane of Fig. 1 and represents a fragment of iioor and ceiling with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan View of the bracket and a fragment Fig. 4 is an enlarged View of the bracket itself. Figs. 5 and 6 show modifications.

Referring to the drawings, 2 represents the ceiling of a room; 3, the ioor above; 4 4, the Hoor-beams; 5,v a cross-piece pivotally adjustable upon screws 66 and carrying bracket or hanger 7. The lbracket 7 has a shank 8, in

' ple 16 of the bracket 7 'and the threaded end 17 of the chandelier-tube 14.

18 is the usual supporting-disk which my invention supplements. In this disk are apertures 19 for the wire conduits or pipes 20, through which wires 21 are conducted into tube 14 and thence to the lamps 22.

g 23 is the usual cap or hood, held by collar 24 and set-screw 25, for concealing the wires protruding below the ceiling. The disk 18 is held by a lock-nut 26 upon the threaded portion 16 against the shoulder or lateral projection 27 of the bracket 7 The nipple 16 has a bore 28, through which the wire may pass,

' if desired, instead of through holes-19.

In Fig. 5 is shown a modification wherein the nipple 16 is provided with a hook 29, upon which the chandelier 13 may be hung in free suspension, and in Fig. 6 is shown another modification wherein the nipple 16" has interior threads for the threaded end of the pipe 14, thus dispensing with the threaded sleeve 15.` It is common practice vto fasten a supporting-disk-somewhat similar to the disk 18 by means o f screws entering a beam 4. When said disk, rigidly secured to tube 14,is clamped against the ceiling, the pipe 14, being perpendicular to the face of the disk, Will obviously be swung out of perpendicular by any irregularity in the horizontal surface to which said disk is secured. Byvthe provisions of my invention the weight of the chandelier itself After the chandelier hangs true the c rotation, and the bracket 7 may be fastened against pivotal movement by tightening the screw 12.v After this has been done the disk 18 may be screwed irmly into place by locknut 26 without disturbing the position of the chandelier, should the ceiling-surface not be true vertical to the tube 14. The adjustment therefore is practically automatic and instantaneous, assuming that the center of gravity of the chandelier is evenly distributed laterally of the major axis of ltube 14. If not, the chandelier is adjustable through its hanger 7 by hand in four directions.

My invention is capable of being embodied in other moditied forms without departing from its spirit, and I therefore do not wish to confine my invention to the exact details of construction herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a suspended chandelier, of a drop-bracket and a piVotally-movable supporting member for said bracket, secured between the timbers of a floor or ceiling, said bracket secured rigidly at its lower end to said chandelier and pivotally between its lower and upper end to said member, and means for locking the upper end of said bracket to said member'against relative swinging movement.

2. rIhe combination with a chandelier of a vertically-swinging bracket 7 carrying removably the horizontal plate 18 having wireapertures 19, said plate adjustable along the nipple 16 and against the ceiling, by the locknut 26, the supporting member 5 secured to lthe vertical sides of beams 4, 4, said bracket having a pivot-hole 9 and a horizontal adjustment-slot 11.

3. The combination with a chandelier of a bracket 7, and a supporting member 5, said bracket being pivoted to said member 5 and the latter pivoted to the beams 4, 4', whereby said bracket is supported for swinging movement in a plurality of directions, said bracket having a pivot-hole 9 and a horizontal slot 11 and having also threaded nipple 16 for the lock-nut 26 cooperating with the shoulder 27 on said bracket to clamp therebetween thc disk 18.

4. rIhe combination of the chandelier-tube 14 the drop-bracket 7 having a shank 8 in which are pivot-hole 9 and adjustment-slot 11 the threaded nipple 16 on the lower end of said bracket, the threaded sleeve 15 having threaded engagement with said tube 14 and bracketnipple 16, in which is the wire-bore 28, the disk 18 having openings 19 and held between the lock-nut 26 and shouldei1 27 on the bracket, the member 5 pivoted temporarily between beams 4, 4, said member 5 being rotatable with said bracket in one plane and said bracket being rotatable relatively to said member 5 in a plane at right angles to said first-mentioned plane and adapted to be clamped against movement relatively to said member 5 by the screw or bolt 12.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHANN KUHLEMEYER. Witnesses:

A. KoTTsoHAUn, MAX STENGEL. 

